Picking over the bones of last week's thread, we find an eclectic mix of music for your listening pleasure, including Welsh surf-rock, 20s jazz, early-90s alt-rock, and a dash of prog. Here are some highlights, which you can listen to in one go via this YouTube playlist.

This week I've mostly been listening to the just released Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds album, and in particular the track 'If I Had a Gun'. Love the simplicity and the way the song builds, and I think the lyrics are pretty romantic. It's in this kind of rock love song that I think Noel really excells. Particularly like the way it showcases his voice on the chorus.

This week I've really been enjoying Tombstone Blues by Bob Dylan. It kind of makes me sad, I wish someone would write such a scathing and sardonic song today. The political climate is practically crying out for it, and Dylan's surrealist style is just perfect for highlighting the lunacy of hypocrisy, and debasing conventional wisdom. He's insults are so universal, you can't help but get all fired up.

Joy Division's 'Isolation' - it's a haunting, beautiful track. I stopped listening to Joy Division for a long time when I was young, because I found their songs too painful. I can appreciate them as art now.

This week I have been mostly rediscovering Jimi Hendrix, marvelling at how otherworldly he still sounds, how unique his voice was as well as his playing, and how damn well the Redding/Mitchell axis matches his playing. So many bits of genius beyond the immediately obvious - the wall of sound on Burning of the Midnight Lamp after the harpsichord/wah intro, the drum frenzies in the background of Manic Depression, the "telephone keeps on screaming" drop on Long Hot Summer Night...

Midweek blues and there's nothing like a bit of Irish jiggery-pokery to cheer you up. Been listening to The Pogues, of course, but also Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. One of my favourites is this song from FM, if it doesn't cheer you up and get your feet tapping you're probably already dead....

At this very moment, Uriah Heep - Live in Armenia. Recorded on their "Wake the Sleeper" tour, takes me back to the 2009 Cambridge Rock Festival when they came on at midnight, two hours late (and they weren't even top of the bill) and delivered one of the most barnstorming festival sets I've ever seen from a band of that vintage.

Last week someone mentioned (Throwing Muses') 'The Real Ramona' which sent me scurrying back to an album which soundtracked my teenage years. A mixed bag, in retrospect, but this track is as close to perfection as they ever got - a mood of calm *after* the storm (and I used to love playing the lead part with a battered Spanish acoustic guitar)

I discovered Y Niwl last year and have been listening to them avidly since. They do instrumental surf rock with all songs given numbers rather than names. As well as being Gruff Rhys's backing band they have also opened at his recent shows and played most festivals this year. They show that you do not need, lyrics, a front man/woman or an original concept if you can deliver the goods in the way that they do…